ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load
commitdb273d34639c4e85be6998bf60677c7e226dea4a
authorJosh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:48:22 +0000 (24 11:48 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:17:54 +0000 (7 15:17 -0800)
tree2684e76fe8c6989851d9d8540908247223818317
parentf3d155634f6fc7ee665731768ed6f85d04ef442c
ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load

commit e8a80c6f769dd4622d8b211b398452158ee60c0b upstream.

vfs_rename_other() does not lock renamed inode with i_mutex. Thus changing
i_nlink in a non-atomic manner (which happens in ext2_rename()) can corrupt
it as reported and analyzed by Josh.

In fact, there is no good reason to mess with i_nlink of the moved file.
We did it presumably to simulate linking into the new directory and unlinking
from an old one. But the practical effect of this is disputable because fsck
can possibly treat file as being properly linked into both directories without
writing any error which is confusing. So we just stop increment-decrement
games with i_nlink which also fixes the corruption.

CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext2/namei.c